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The whole thing with Alia going into the military has been going on for some time now. Probably about 4 months ago she was going to do the Marine's Reserve. At the time I wasn't happy about it and I didn't see what she was really going to get out of it except a great deal of self-discipline. She would've been gone for 12 weeks, but when it came time for her to sign her life over they Marine's werent going to make it worth her while. So she decided to look at other forms of the military. Later on that same day she calls me saying that she has decided to do Air Force... with 4 years active duty. That was a shock.
We decided that we wouldn't force ourselves to be together during the time that she was away. It woudnt be fair to either of us and no matter who is involved, long distance relationships suck (that's a lesson I learned already). So after her 6 weeks bootcamp I should be able to see her before she goes off to training school. Which will be another quantity of time. Then after that she hopefully gets based in NJ. I would still like to see her on a regular basis. We are still good friends.
I'm not really sad about the whole situation anymore. The hardest part was saying goodbye. Mostly I'm looking forward to being single again. I've had two real relationships in my life. The first being 4 years and second (Alia) 2 years. So basically since I was 18 I've been unable to "play the field". I'm looking forward to that.
Aiight took my lunch break to write that out. Back to the mines. |
Hmm... It's been a while.
Work... All in all YDMG is not a horrible place to work. Leave it to me to get a website company that primarily producces PHP applications to release a .NET application in a week. Friday, the owner sat me down and said that he thinks I am good for their company. So he wants to pay me more the next week as we figure out a contract. On the other hand I have the site that I am doing with Rob. The development is lagging at the moment due to the inability of three women to pick a logo. So now that they finally have I am going to be putting together some use-case scenario's for Jeanne to use in her site design. I decided that it would probably be best if I let Jeanne do the site design. (It's what she does anyway) and worry only about the programming. My lack of free-time up until today has made this project something of a burden.
Alia... Alia left today. After being worried for the past two days wether shw would weigh-in at less than 150 (Air Force's maximum weight for women 5'11). She left this morning at 5am to be processed. I spoke with her a couple of times during the day. She told me she was leaving NY via La Guardia at 5pm to Texas. Her boot camp doesn't officially start until Monday, so she should be able to call me for the next couple of days when she gets there.
Friday... Had Omega get together at Jillian's. Had fun. Got back to Brooklyn and got fucked up with Sadia until about 9:00am.
Saturday, Chaminade Reunion... It was pretty cool, I definitley enjoyed drinking at my old high school. Met up with a few people I wanted to and ran into a lot of people that knew me, but I didn't even recognize them. I got to drag Alia around as "eye-candy"... always a plus. After that we chilled out at a BBQ that an aunt of Yves' was having. Then it got so late that Alia and I ended up crashing at Yves'.
Sunday and Monday I hung out with Alia. Then went into work today. No class tonight because my students aren't showing because I thought the last class was the last class. I'm gonna finagle (sp) it so i dont have to have a last class.
Right now I'm gonna frag some fuckers for a bit. Then I plan on getting those use-cases together. Upload the database structure to the remote server. Frag some more fuckers. Then goto sleep.Current Mood:  okay |
Okay, I went to work today. All I really have to do this week is to customize a vendor's online classified application which was written in PHP. All in all it should be pretty simple. I have a week to do it and i expect to be done by Thursday the latest.
As far as monetary compensation for this job goes... I am getting $450 for this week and paid as a consultant. After they can see what I can do then they will bump my pay up but they can't yet give me the mystical magical number of 44.2, not until that contract goes through anyway. A little more realistic than that contract going through is the fact that I find a better job. Which they understand that I have to look out for myself and will leave at the next best offer, but they seem to want to keep a business relationship with me afterwards and use me for contract work. That'd be cool.
That's about it. I just really wanted to write something about the place where I am working now. The company itself is pretty laid back. Jeans and shirt kind of place. I have a tendency of getting to friendly with the people I work with and I know that causes problems (or at least gives me the impression I can get away with shit), but I really don't feel myself doing that here. I need a job. |
Tommorow I start at this company named YDMG, but I am not starting there in the way I was hoping. Originally the company was going to hire me at 44.2k/yr pending their contract with the owners of www.games.com went through. It was supposed to go through and i was supposed to start working on this past Tuesday. Now i hear that it might take longer for the contract to go through so they don't have the budget to hire me now. Then they call me proposing that I work for them as a consultant (at something that will amount to lower than 44.2k/yr) until I find a new job or until their contract goes through. So I basically have no choice since i don't have the funds to do anything else. I figure I'll start putting money together for my car. I have to pay $900 to the DMV in order to be able to take the road test again.
At some point this week I am going to restart my job hunt. I've taken a two week break from the hunt. It's so dismal in the workfield right now its depressing. Hence another reason why I am taking that job.
Saturday I have a 5-year reunion at Chaminade. That will definitley be interesting. More on that later though.Current Mood:  anxious |
This is the first time I am posting on Live Journal. Not really sure why I am doing it. I have thought about it a couple of times but never really did it. I guess i am doing it to keep a realistic perspective on my life and where it is going. I'm sure I'll be posting a lot more in the next couple of days.Current Mood:  discontent |
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